Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:50:25 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [QN/PATCH] Why do some archs allocate stack via kmalloc, others via get_free_pages? | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:11:17 +1000
> In making some modifications to Suspend, we've discovered that some > arches use kmalloc and others use get_free_pages to allocate the stack. > Is there a reason for the variation? If not, could the following patch > be considered for inclusion (tested on x86 only).
Some platforms really need it to be page aligned (sparc32 sun4c needs to virtually map the resulting pages into a specific place, for example).
But, for the ones that don't have this requirement, they want the cache coloring. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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